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A Memorial and Biographical History of Northern California (1891) (713 pages)
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126 HISTORY OF NORTHERN CALIFORNIA.
growing, being the product of the railroad. It
has large grain warehouses and is an important
shipping point. It has good schools and
churches, a well-established bank, a foundry and
live business men. During the last couple cf
years it has enjoyed quite a “ boom.”
Orland, the most northerly town in the
county, also a product of the railroad, has an
energetic and thriving population. It has a
bank, good public schools, churches, and possesses
a Normal College that is a successful enterprise.
Germantown is in the northern portion of the
county, also on the jine of the Northern Railway, in a fine farming district; has excellent
warehouse and shipping facilities, good business
houses, and a new public school building.
Maxwell is a thriving railroad town and an
important shipping point for grain, having fine
storage capacity. It has a $10,000 brick echoolhouse and good churches. The town is centrally located, and in the midst of a rich
farming territory.
Williams is also a flourishing young railroad
town, with a fine, large, brick public school
building, churches, substantial and well conducted stores, good hotels, and large warehouse
capacity.
Arbuckle is an important railroad point in
the southern part of the county, with rich tributary farming land. It has a good school-house
and church.
College City lies three miles east of Arbuckle,
and is a flourishing little town. It is the seat
of Pierce Christian College, founded in 1874 and
handsomely endowed by the will of Andrew
Pierce, a prominent educational institution of the
State. The inhabitants constitute a strictly temperance community, the selling of intoxicating
drinks being prohibited within a radius of one
mile.
Butte City and Princeton are important river
villages, prominent shipping points, and in a
very rich section of the county.
St. John, Jacinto, Syracuse, Grand Island,
and Grimes’ Landing are also river villages and
shipping points.
Leesville, in Bear Valley; Smithville, Elk
Creek, and Newville, in Stony Creek Valley;
Sites, in Antelope Valley; Sulphur Creek, in
the mining district, in the southwestern part
of the county; and Frato, in the foot-hill region
northwest of Willows, are trading points of
importance.
The newspapers of the county are live and
fearless exponents of their section, comparing
well with the journals of other parte. The list
is as follows: In Colusa, the Swn, daily and
weekly, founded in 1862, and oldest paper in
county; Gazette, daily and weekly, established
in 1889; and Herald, in 1886. At Willows are
published the Journal, issued first in 1877,
daily and weekly, the Republican and Review,
weeklies, established in 1889 and 1890. At
Orland is the Mews, date, 1885; at Arbuckle,
the Autocrat, date, 1890; at Maxwell, the Mercury, date, 1888, and at Williams the Farmer,
founded in 1887.
In the earliest day the county was Whig in
politics, but after the formation of the Republican party it became Democratic; and during
the war was almost what some people denomnated “ secession.”
The Assemblymen from Colusa County have
been: Robert Barnett, 1885; G@. W. Bowie,
1854; T. J. Butler, 1863; George Carhart,
1853; Renben Clark, 1883; H. W. Dunlap,
1859; D. P. Durst, 1861; Henry L. Ford,
1852; W. S. Green, 1867-68; Thomas J. Hart,
1875-’78, 1887; S. Jennison, 186364; E. J.
Lewis, 1856, 1858; William S. Long, 1865-’66;
W. P. Mathews, 1880-81, 1887; J. L. Me
Cutcheon, 1855; L. Searce, 1869-70; John
Simpson, 187374; D. M, Steele, 1857; F. A.
Stephenson, 1860; Joseph W. Thompson,
1862; Loomis Ward, 1871-72.
CONTRA COSTA COUNTY
embraces 490 square miles of hill and mountain and 150 square miles of valley land, and
110 of tule and marsh lands, making a total of
750 square miles. The land is well adapted to
the raising of grain, fruits, vegetables and live